Eamon Melaugh
Eamon Melaugh (4 July 1933 – 8 December 2025) was an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist from Derry, Northern Ireland.
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Melaugh helped found the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC)[1][2] and the Derry Unemployment Action Committee (DUAC)[3] which campaigned for jobs and housing for Derry Catholics.
Melaugh and the DHAC became involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in the late 1960s.[4] He later contributed evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.[5] He was an active member of the Workers' Party,[6] and stood as a candidate for it and its predecessor, Republican Clubs/Official Sinn Féin, in the Foyle constituency.[7][8]
In 1956, he married Mary McLaughlin; the couple had 11 children, four daughters and seven sons.[9] One of his sons, Martin Melaugh, is an academic who curates the University of Ulster's CAIN, a collection of information and source material on "the Troubles" and politics in Northern Ireland.[10] A nephew is writer, broadcaster, and comedian Andrew Doyle.[11] Melaugh died on 8 December 2025, at the age of 92.[12]
References
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- ^ Bloody Sunday Report (Volume 5, Chapter 86) Archived 3 November 2010 at the UK Government Web Archive Volume 5, Chapter 86.
- ^ Presentation to Eamon Melaugh, Annual Northern Ireland regional conference of the Workers Party, Belfast (4 October 2008), youtube.com.
- ^ Foyle Elections 1983-1992, ark.ac.uk; accessed 30 January 2018.
- ^ Foyle Elections 1973-83 Eamon Melaugh Electoral history], electionsireland.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
- ^ Eamon Melaugh Archived 22 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine, eaawsecohumanitarians.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
- ^ List of Contributors to the CAIN Site: Martin Melaugh, cain.ulst.ac.uk. Accessed 8 December 2025.
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- ^ Veteran civil rights campaigner Eamon Melaugh dies, bbc.co.uk. Accessed 8 December 2025.
External links
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